Air and vapor burner



0. F. MORRILL.

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UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR F. MORRILL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

AIR AND 'VAPOR BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, OSCAR F. MoRRrLL, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful orImproved Air and Vapor Burner; and I do hereby declare that the same isfully described and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, denotes a side elevation;Fig. 2, a top view, and Fig. 3, a vertical section of said burner.

In these drawings A, exhibits the stand for supporting the operativeparts of my apparatus. Underneath this stand or applied to its undersideis a reservoir B, furnished with a hollow standard, C, extending aboveit vertically and having a flat tube, D, projecting from such standardhorizontally, and opening into a cylindrical air chamber, E, raised onthe stand A. The upper part of this air chamber is furnished with a wiregauze disk or disseminator or cap F, around and above which there may bea perforated or wire gauze chimney or tube G. One or more holes a, a,are constructed in the lower part of the air chamber so as to allow air.to freely pass into the same.

The reservoir B, is furnished with an auxiliary wick tube or burner, H,arranged directly underneath the fiat tube, D, as shown in the drawings.This latter wick tube, as well as the tube, D,.is provided with a wickto extend through it and down into the reservoir as shown at Z), c, inFig. 3, the wick, c, for the tube D, being made to pass down through thestandard C, and into the reservoir.

A regulating and extinguishing tube I, surrounds and slides on the wicktube of the auxiliary burner and so that the upper end 4 of the saidtube I, (which should be open) may be moved up into Contact with theunderside of the tube, D, or may be adjusted at such distance below thesame as circumstances may require either to totally extinguish the flameof the auxiliary burner or increase or diminish the amount and action ofthe same, as may be desirable.

If we suppose the reservoir to be supplied with some liquid hydrocarboncapable of being easily vaporized by the action of heat, such liquid bycapillary attraction will ascend both of the wicks and in case theauxiliary burner be inflamed the heat arising from Vthe flame will beabsorbed by the tube 18,465, dated October 20, 185'?.

D. This will cause combustible-vapor to be generated within the tube, D,and to flow from thence into the air chamber, E, and mix with the airthat may be therein. This mixture of air and combustible vapor will passup through the wire gauze disseminator, and may be inamed on the topsurface of the same as air and gas are burned on an ordinary air and gasburner.

My apparatus for burning hydrocarbon vapors mixed with air will be foundvery useful for heating purposes, especially where it. is difficult toobtain common olefiant or inflammable gas. By commingling air andcombustible vapor, and burning the same in manner as described, a moreperfect combustion of the carbon takes place than is the case when thehydrocarbon vapor is burned on an ordinary gas-burner or wick andwithout such admixture with air.

In burning essential oil of turpentine or various other fluids rich incarbon and possessing disagreeable odors, it is found that my apparatuswill nearly if not entirely destroy the odors, such being occasioned bythe action of the air in promoting or facilitating combustion of theodorous vapors.

My peculiar arrangement of the parts composing my apparatus enables itto operate to good advantage as well as to be easily supplied with theliquid hydrocarbon, the standard, C, being furnished with a screw cap K,which being removed therefrom causes the standard to serve as aconductor through which liquid may be poured into the receiver orreservoir.

I do not claim an air and gas burner consisting of a cylindrical tubehaving a wire gauze or perforated disk or disseminator, and combinedwith a tube for supplying it with oleant gas, and being open so as toallow common air to mix with the gas and pass through the disseminatorwith the gas and be burned therein. Nor do I claim combining with an airand gas burner a perforated or wire gauze chimney or tube to extendaround and above the same, as this latter has been patented by WilliamF. Shaw. Nor do I claim a hydrocarbon vapor burner as made of acombination of an ordinary gas burner, a reservoir to hold the liquidhydrocarbon, a wick tube, and a. secondary burner, or lamp to heat thewick tube and vaporize the liquid of its wick in Vorder that the vapormay pass into the gas burner, and there be burned unmixed with air, but

What I do claim is- The combination of the air and vapor burner E F ofthe kind. described With the reservoir B, Wick holder C D, and a lamp or5 burner to operate against the Wiekholder and vaporize the liquid ofits Wick, the Whole'being constructed so that such vapor may bedischarged into the air receiving chamber E and be mixed With airtherein, 16 and with such air be caused to flow upward through themeshes of the disseminator F, so as to be burned thereon substantiallyas specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set myzsignature this 26th day ofJune, A. D. 15 185 OSCAR F. MORRILL. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

